Forty-five managers and employees of a mine in the western Turkish town of Soma, went on trial on Monday accused of causing the deaths of 301 miners who perished in a fire last year in Turkey’s worst mining disaster. The …
Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey’s worst mining disaster: company negligence. And he knows one other thing – he’s never going back down any mine again. Bicak, 24, had just ended …
Loudspeakers broadcast the names of the dead and excavators dug mass graves in the close-knit Turkish mining town of Soma on Thursday, while protesters gathered in major cities as grief turned to anger following the country’s deadliest industrial disaster. Rescuers …